MATH CLASS NOTES

AVERAGE

1. Five students obtained 14, 12, 18, x and 20 marks in an exam. If the average marks of the
group is 15, then what is the value of x?

(a) 12 (b) 13 (c) 11 (d) 14

2. What is the average of the squares of the first 19 natural numbers?

(a) 124 (b) 127.5 (c) 130 (d) 133.5

3. What is the average of all numbers between 11 and 80 which are divisible by 6?

(a) 46 (b) 47 (c) 44 (d) 45

4. The average of 12 numbers is 9. If each number is multiplied by 2 and added to 3, the average
of the new set of numbers will be.

(a) 9 (b) 18 (c) 21 (d) 27

5. What is the average of the first seven even multiples of 4.

(a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 20 (d) 24

6. The average marks of a group of six students decreases by 3 when the marks of the highest
scorer is replaced by the marks of the lowest scorer. If the marks of the lowest scorer are 25, then
what are the marks of the highest scorer.

(a) 33 (b) 43 (c) 25 (d) 40

7. In a match, average of runs scored by 5 players is 49. If the runs scored by four players are 75,
30, 62 and 21 respectively, then how many runs did the 5 th player scored?

(a) 43 (b) 49 (c) 57 (d) 89

8. The average of 45 results was calculated as 27 but later it was found that while calculating, 39
was taken as 93 by mistake, then what will be the correct average?

(a) 25.8 (b) 26.8 (c) 27.2 (d) 28.2

9. The average weight of a group of nine people decreases by 3kg when a person weighing 56kg
was replaced by a new person. What is the weight of the new person?

(a) 29 kg (b) 27 kg (c) 47 kg (d) 38 kg

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10. The average age of 36 students in a group is 14 years. When the teacher’s age is included, the
average age increases by one year. What is the teacher’s age?

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 (a) 31 years (b) 36 years (c) 51 years (d) None of these

11. A teacher gave a test in which there were three sections. The average number of questions in
the three sections was 25. If the number of questions in the third section was 50% more than the
first section and five more than the second section, then what was the number of questions in the
second section.

(a) 32 (b) 16 (c) 20 (d) 25

12. Five years ago, the average age of a husband and wife was 35 years. Today, the average age
of the husband, wife and a child is 28 years. What was the average age of the couple when the
child was born?

(a) 35 years (b) 40 years (c) 38 years (d) 36 years

13. The average age of 5 members of a family is 24 years. If the youngest member is 8 years old,
then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member?

(a) 16 years (b) 20 years (c) 24 years (d) 32 years

14. The average weight of a class of 40 students is 40 kg. If the weight of the teacher is included,
the average weight increases by 500 grams. What is the weight of the teacher?

(a) 60 kg (b) 60.5kg (c) 50.5 kg (d) 44 kg

15. Out of three annual examinations, each with a total of 500 marks, a students secured average
marks of 45% and 55% in the first and second annual examinations. To have an overall average
of 60%, how many marks does the student need to secure in the third annual examination?

(a) 450 (b) 400 (c) 350 (d) 300

16. Three years age, the average age of Akhil and Bimal was 18 years, with Chetan joining them,
the present average age becomes 22 years. How old is chetan now?

(a) 24 years (b) 27 years (c) 28 years (d) 32 years

17. The average age of 14 cricketers and their coach is 15 years. If the age of coach is excluded,
the average reduces by 1. What is the age of coach?

(a) 35 years (b) 32 years (c) 30 years (d) 29 years

18. The average of 11 results is 182. If the average of first 6 result is 199. And that of the last 6
2 result is 161, then what will be the 6 th result?

(a) 79 (b) 118.5 (c) 158 (d) 237

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 19. The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of the first six numbers is 10.5. and that of
the last six numbers is 11.4, then what is the middle number?

(a) 11.5 (b) 11.4 (c) 11.3 (d) 11.0

20. Having scored 98 runs in the 19 th innings, a cricketer increases his average score by 4. What
will be his average score after the 19 th innigs?

(a) 28 (b) 26 (c) 24 (d) 22

21. A batsman in his 12 th innings makes a score of 120, and thereby increased his average by 5.
The average score after 12 th innings is:

(a) 60 (b) 55 (c) 65 (d) 70

22. In the first 40 overs of a 50 over innings, the run rate was 4.8 runs/over. What is the required
run rate in the remaining 10 overs to reach the target of 241 runs?

(a) 6.7 (b) 6.5 (c) 6.3 (d) 4.9

23. The average of any 5 Consective odd natural numbers is k. If two more such numbers, just
next to these five numbers are added, then what will be the new average?

(a) 2/7 (k+1) (b) 2k-3 (c) 2k+1 (d) k + 2

24. Narendra was conducting an experiment in which the average of 11 observations came to be
90, while the average of first five observations was 87, and that of the last five was 84. What was
the measure of the 6th observation?

(a) 135 (b) 150 (c) 145 (d) 135

25. Average age of father and his two sons is 27 years. Five years ago, the average age of the two
sons was 12 years. What is the present age of the father?

(a) 34 years (b) 47 years (c) 64 years (d) 27 years

26. The average of 8 numbers is A, and one of the number is 14. If 14 is replaced with 28, then
what is the new average in term of A?

(a) A + ½ (b) 2A + 3/2 (c) 3A/2 (d) A + 7/4

27. The average age of a class of 30 students and a teacher reduce by 0.5 years. If we exclude the
teacher. If the initial average is 14 years then what is the age of the class teacher?
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(a) 29 years (b) 30 years (c) 31 years (d) 32 years

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 28. The average of 30 result is 20 and the average of other 20 result is 30. What is the average of
all the result?

(a) 24 (b) 25 (c) 48 (d) 50

29. The average height of 30 girl’s in a class of 40 is 160 cm and the average of remaining girls
is 156 cm. What is the average height of the whole class?

(a) 158 cm (b) 158.5 cm (c) 159 cm (d) 50

30. There are 197 boys and 591 girls in a college. If the average weight of boys is 63 kg and
average weight of girls is 51 kg, then what is the average weight of the students in the college?

(a) 56 kg (b) 57 kg (c) 54 kg (d) 60 kg

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 Average Answer Key

1. C - 11 28. A - 24

2. C - 130 29. C – 159 CM

3. D - 45 30. C – 54 KG

4. C - 21

5. A- A

6. B - 43

7. C - 57

8. A – 28.5

9. A – 29KG

10. D – 51 YEARS

11. D – 25

12. D – 36 YEARS

13. B – 20 TEARS

14. B – 60.5KG

15. B - 400

16. A – 24 YEARS

17. D – 29 YEARS

18. C - 158

19. A – 11.5

20. B - 26

21. C - 65

22. D – 4.9

23. D – K+2

24. D - 124

25. B - 47

26. D – A + 7/4

27. A – 29 YEARS

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